bzzzzt. Sorry, that's incorrect. I turn off the network connection and still could not play either COD or AC2. This is a disgrace. F Sony.

+1!! God damn it annoys me when people start whining about the second "page flip". 99% of people don't read fast enough for this to be an issue anyway.

No. It depends on the business. I work for a financial services company and our LOB is about 130 bodies with ~50 dedicated to IT. That includes DBAs/INF/Devs/Arch/PMs. We don't even provide help desk services. And we are drinking through a fire hose with the workload from the business. The LOB, of course, is a web based financial management service with a lot of demanding clients. But our parent company (a bank) has about 25K employees with 4K that are considered IT which isn't nearly the ratio we are but is much higher than 60/1.

Sure, and in "fairness" if you buy a phone at full price, your bill would be less the cost of the ETF each month..right? Oh, sorry, you do not get a discount for paying the "retail" price of any device. So, i guess if the monthly charge is the same either way I'll take the discount.

I'm not trying to be a nudge here, but I'm confused about the two screens thing....When you are reading a typical novel, you are probably reading one page at a time. So why exactly is only seeing one page at a time such an issue? You get the same view without all the awkward shape and pages flapping about. Granted, if your consuming pages quicker than the reader can refresh it might be an issue, but few people read that quickly, especially for pleasure.

They want to push some color, flashy, embedded video having, online capable version of a magazine? Hmmm.. I think I've seen that somewhere..oh, yeah, like a fucking website? WTF? This already exists, its called the web and no, it will not "threaten" the kindle, whatever that means. The kindle is pretty good at one thing, books and the eInk is great for extended reading. Not text books or big picture books, but regular ol books, you know, the majority of books. If you want some type of hybrid web enabled, color/video-ized,futuristic media delivery medium then I suggest you wait until apple releases its tablet next year. Oh, and let them help you design it, dummies.

Sort of.. lifetime access is rolled into the cost of the device(and probably a sliver of each paid d/l). But you would never call sprint(kindle) or Att(nook) for any reason whatsoever about the device. You can even crudely browse the web with the kindle with no additional charge. So there is no "lock", the data provider is black box to you, the ebook delivery is simply magic and really, its not a cell phone. I was actually hoping the Kindle would be the start of the Wireless cartel becoming what they should be, dumb pipes.

They(Sprint/Clearwire) have been trying to push Wimax for 4g mobile networks forever now and a lot of dummies have bought into it. LTE is going to be the 4g wireless standard. About the only thing Wimax is good for is last mile fixed position connectivity. Which is probably not a bad niche to service. But even Clearwire just said recently that they could easily flip to LTE with just a software push, so even they are hedging their bets.

I'm a sorcerer level 40 and I already have this ad free, oh and several hundred AutoM8s under my control..

Just a cool billion?? they (ATT) are dumping 12 Billion into their wireless network

in 2009.. I guess we'll have super 3G!!

Probably because while there are more BBs in the wild, the iPhone makes up the lions share of traffic from cell phones. source.

He is correct.

umm.. one would have thought they didn't buy salt because they hadn't received snow like that in a decade... But I'm sure you're right, because it makes sense for them to base the decision some sensationalist headline on -insert some website here-.

If they can't afford a digital television, then they'd probably be better off without one for a while. What are they going to do? Riot? over TV?

However, considering even in the "mega-opolis" of DC to Boston, almost no one, has 100/10 FTTH. Even VZW's FIOS is only 15/5 generally. And with tv costs more than the OPs 55Eu cost. His point was spot on- We are getting screwed by our ISPs. Hard. And its easy because there is little to no competition.
PS. I pray daily for FIOS in my area so I can tell Comcast to F off. I f-ing hate their guts and hope they go under.

Sure.. it's different, and just about useless, they might as well say you can have an Exabyte for all it matters. Unless you're in one of the few areas TMo actually has 3g you'll be crawling along at EDGE speeds or even GPRS.. Good luck using up that 10GB at 50kbps. I'd take the 5GB/60$ for 5GB that I could actually use